Github will happily hand you an access token by visiting "https://github.com/settings/tokens" https://github.com/settings/tokens". These are bearer tokens, in

Github will happily hand you an access token by visiting "https://github.com/settings/tokens" https://github.com/settings/tokens". These are bearer tokens, in that the bearer gets granted access by that token alone. You happen to send it along in a Basic authentication in HTTP instead of as an Authorization header, but it is a bearer token all the same. No OAuth2 flow required.